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  • cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
  • camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
  • camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
  • campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
  • campeachy wood — wood from the Central American tree Haematoxylon campechianum
  • campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
  • canada hemlock — a hemlock, Tsuga canadensis, of eastern North America, having horizontal branches that often droop to the ground: the state tree of Pennsylvania.
  • canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
  • canadian river — a river in the southern US, rising in NE New Mexico and flowing east to the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. Length: 1458 km (906 miles)
  • canceled check — a check that has been redeemed by a bank and then usually returned to the issuer.
  • candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
  • cape cod canal — a canal in SE Massachusetts, connecting Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • cape girardeau — a city in SE Missouri, on the Mississippi River.
  • cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • capparidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Capparidaceae (or (Capparaceae), a family of plants, mostly shrubs including the caper, of warm tropical regions
  • carbon dioxide — Carbon dioxide is a gas. It is produced by animals and people breathing out, and by chemical reactions.
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • cardiac arrest — A cardiac arrest is a heart attack.
  • cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
  • cardinal tetra — a small, brilliantly colored red and blue characin fish, Paracheirodon axelrodi, native to tropical forest streams in Brazil and Colombia: a popular aquarium fish.
  • cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
  • cardiocentesis — surgical puncture of the heart
  • care attendant — (in Britain) a person who is paid to look after one or more severely handicapped people by visiting them frequently and staying when needed, but who does not live in
  • carotid artery — A carotid artery is one of the two arteries in the neck that supply the head with blood.
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • carriage drive — a private road for horse-drawn carriages, often connecting a house with a public road
  • carriage trade — trade from the wealthy part of society
  • carrion feeder — any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
  • cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
  • case and paste — (programming)   (From "cut and paste") The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes. This usually results in gross violation of the fundamental programming tenet, Don't Repeat Yourself. Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using "case" statements. Leads to software bloat. In some circles of Emacs users this is called "programming by Meta-W", because Meta-W is the Emacs command for copying a block of text to a kill buffer in preparation to pasting it in elsewhere. The term is condescending, implying that the programmer is acting mindlessly rather than thinking carefully about what is required to integrate the code for two similar cases. At DEC, this is sometimes called "clone-and-hack" coding.
  • cash dispenser — A cash dispenser is a machine built into the wall of a bank or other building, which allows people to take out money from their bank account using a special card.
  • cashier's desk — A cashier's desk is the same as a cash desk.
  • casinghead gas — natural gas obtained from an oil well.
  • casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • cater-cornered — diagonally placed; diagonal
  • cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
  • cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
  • cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
  • cattle breeder — a person who breeds and raises cattle
  • catty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • celiac disease — a chronic nutritional disorder, usually of young children, caused by faulty absorption of gluten in the intestines and characterized by diarrhea and malnutrition
  • cellular radio — radio communication based on a network of transmitters each serving a small area known as a cell: used in personal communications systems in which the mobile receiver switches frequencies automatically as it passes from one cell to another
  • center fielder — the player whose position is center field.
  • center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
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